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A stowaway who hid in the undercarriage of a British Airways flight from Johannesburg to London and survived, after months in hospital, will speak about his ordeal and his new life in a television documentary on Monday.
Themba Cabeka and a friend, Carlito Vale, sneaked aboard the passenger plane at OR Tambo International Airport in June 2015. Vale fell and died during the 11-hour flight, shortly before landing at Heathrow Airport.
Cabeka, who was finally located in an apartment in Liverpool after a five-year search by a television producer, will talk about the incident that made world news Monday night in a Channel 4 documentary. The man who fell from the sky.
“When the plane landed, I fell down and I remember thinking that Carlito must still be in it,” Cabeka said in an interview with The Guardian, published on Sunday. The South African, who still walks on crutches, is now called Justin.
When he woke up in the hospital, the police showed him a photograph and asked if he knew the person. “I said yes. They told me he didn’t make it and I was surprised.
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